Inchcolm Island

Firstly, I would like to announce a three week long blog hiatus due to holidays.  Hurrah!  

That being done, the topic of tonight's seminar will be Inchcolm Island!   Inchcolm is one of the islands in the Firth of Forth.  There's a very picturesque ruined abbey on it, so one sunnyish day I went to explore it.   I took a bus from Waverley Bridge and then boarded the boat at Queensferry.   It's a great little island!  Not much to see other than the abbey though, just a few WW2 fortifications.   But I had a good time photographing the Abbey and scrambling about in long grass.   I practiced HDR again this trip, and I was quite pleased with the results.   Here are a few of my favorite HDR pics from the day:

                                                                Forth Rail Bridge

                                                                     The Abbey

                                                 I hate whoever put that bin there!

And one non HDR photo that I like:

                                       The late afternoon light on this rock was spectacular!




And for good measure, a seal!

St. Giles

I love St Giles cathedral.   I don't know who St. Giles was, but I love it all the same, with its angel statue near the door and blue ceiling and decor that reminds you of being underwater.   To me it's both ancient and modern at the same time.   Both religious and light hearted.   You do have to buy a photography license in there, but it's only a couple of quid, so I think it's well worth it.   I went for HDR photos again, and it seemed to work really well.   That was my first time doing them indoors.   The biggest challenge for this shoot was trying to get shots without people in them!   It wasn't high tourist season, but there were still plenty of visitors about.   I suppose that's what comes of living in Edinburgh.

Some of my favorites from this shoot:

                                          Not a great photo but I do really like the statue

So there you have it.   St. Giles in HDR.